Ayenbite of Inwyt

The Ayenbite of Inwyt, by Dan Michael of Northgate, is a translation into the Middle EnglishKentish dialect of Lorens of Orleans' Somme des vices et des vertues, an Old French treatise on morality. It is generally agreed to be of mainly linguistic interest; for example it is the earliest known source of several English proverbs.

Middle English quotations are cited from the edition by Richard Morris (London: N. Trübner for the Early English Texts Society, 1866). Translations into Modern English are from the same source, unless otherwise stated.